Euphorbia hirsuta Linnaeus, Amoenitates Academicae 4: 483. 1759.

"Habitat [Monspelii.]"

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Current name: Euphorbia hirsuta L. ( Euphorbiaceae).

Note: See Stearn (in Geck & Pressler, Festschr. Claus Nissen: 643. 1974), who reproduces the account by Magnol that validates this name. Stearn added that the plant described by Magnol "is evidently the widespread Mediterranean species commonly known as E. pubescens Vahl ".